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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I've just messed up my new linux machine by playing around with Xinerama. The setup of my computer is to display my main monitor on a crt then have another display which is my TV. I first did this without Xinerama, and it worked ok, but I wanted to be able to drag windows to the TV screen. So I set it up with Xinerama, it no longer opens a terminal window! All that happens is it says Starting Terminal... then it disappears with no terminal in its place.

So I used my backup to revert back to what I had which was a clone screen setup and now it only opens the terminal on the TV screen... bizarre and quite useless for me!

I did read somewhere that it could be a permissions thing, but I'm not sure how or why in this case... so I did log in as root and tried it, which worked fine, like the good old days... So maybe it does have something to do with it...

I decided to create a shortcut on my desktop to see if that would work and it did... So I was going to compare the properties of the new shortcut and the menu shortcut (which I always used before). And I launched the menu shortcut by accident instead of looking at its properties and now its working... Could it be to do with creating the new desktop shortcut? I don't know... but it works now.